Always Working, Always Moving: Transcript
In an endless dance of metal and fumes, a fourteen-year-old Nepali boy makes a living as a parking lot attendant.
By the Hot Zone Team, Wed May 17, 12:49 PM ET
It's hard work — pulling out motorcycles, backing in cars. He makes about $30 a month, but has to send two-thirds of that back home. The rest he uses to support himself — taking a hotel room, getting some modest meals, washing his own clothes.
But he's always working, always moving. He says he never thinks about playing anymore because he just can't do it. He's working seven days a week, sometimes 16 to 18 hours a day, using a kind of choreography to move his clients into and out of these tight spaces, anticipating their needs sometimes before even they do.
He works amongst piles of garbage, keeping track of all the motorcycles and cars that come in.
He would like to go back to school someday, he says, but he doesn't have time to think about that right now. He's too busy. And if he stopped doing this job, what would his family do — how would they eat?
So for now, he continues working long hours, all during the day and into the night.
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